Speculation: Roster Building Thread XXX: Cue Europe

[egelband]

I'm just concerned this board is trying to create more of an idea of excessive demand that what is reasonably out there. We know STL and bos are major players for krieder. Beyond that we are hoping there are more but until we know let's be reasonable. Sometimes all you need are two teams battling for one player.

i agree. i am pretty sure there's a hard cap on how 'great' the return for kreider could be. a low first and a decent prospect? yes, i think so. but i think that's the max. maybe some extra lower-value parts additionally...an extra mid-round pick and an extra 'specialty' prospect/project. but the ceiling of the deal it that low-first-and-b-level-prospect.

 

[wolfgaze]

Look at Buch in the background with that enormous goofy grin.

He filled the void left by Anisimov... I wonder if he also loves Stargate SG1?

 

[kovazub94]

More years isn't always a good thing. I'd bet Zucc is having second thoughts about not taking the 4 year deal from Dallas.

Financially, no seconds thoughts. He knew what environment and opportunity he’s passing on.

 

[GAGLine]

Kaapo looks like he wanted to be home having soup 3 hours ago. Ruff looking at the camera how I look at Ruff. Lindgren should have worn a monocle on the bruised eye. Skjei looks photoshopped in with the best picture they found of him.

Kreider should donate part of his neck to Barry Trotz.

 

[egelband]

Went to College up there. Have to say, did not have an experience like this at all. People were much friendlier than in NY. Much cleaner than NYC. Less touristy. People seemed way more polite. I love NY but I also really like Boston. This coming from a diehard Yankees fan.

i think most people have pleasant-to-great opinions of their college town. like me with Montreal. i admit i might like it less as a job seeker or father or tax payer or pro athlete, for examples

 

[egelband]

Kreider should donate part of his neck to Barry Trotz.

haha! have you been waiting to drop that line? be honest...!

 

[GAGLine]

haha! have you been waiting to drop that line? be honest...!

Nah, I just noticed how long Kreider's neck looks when not in uniform, and Trotz clearly has no neck.

Someone with better skills than me should post a pick of them side by side.

 

[kovazub94]

There is no other goalie to protect. They can protect Georgiev just fine already.

For most people recent and upcoming developments (regardless which way) made expansion draft no longer goalie sensitive for the Rangers.

 

[egelband]

No bueno. I hate injuries. I hope it’s not serious. Even though I don’t like the Avalanche at all. Injury is not the way I like it to go.

 

[Avery16]

If we have a Brooks-Hank lockerroom moment like the Brooks-Boyle one, I think I'm going to need counseling.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Kaapo looks like he wanted to be home having soup 3 hours ago. Ruff looking at the camera how I look at Ruff. Lindgren should have worn a monocle on the bruised eye. Skjei looks photoshopped in with the best picture they found of him.

Chytil looks like Elon Musk

 

[EdJovanovski]

Buchnevich might actually be becoming my favorite Ranger lirl.

He’s becoming the best meme in hockey

 

[Konamic Ice Hockey]

Chytil looks like Elon Musk

Haha This photo can have its own thread, this pictures is worth a 1000 jokes. What is David Oliver looking at? Shesty needs to join the other goalies at the tanning salon.

 

[Avery16]

Players really hitting to injure. Ugly.

If a player is coming in to check you, its on them if youre ready for it, absent an elbow or stick to the head.

 

[n8]

Chytil looks like Elon Musk

Meanwhile Gregg McKegg is resembling Jim Carey in Dumb and Dumber.

 

[TheGortonConspiracy]

 

[Maximus]

No bueno. I hate injuries. I hope it’s not serious. Even though I don’t like the Avalanche at all. Injury is not the way I like it to go.

Was just reading 'Lanche board and apparently Rantanen is out for "weeks".

There was already speculation that Colorado was interested in Kreider but one would think with this unfortuante news about Rantanen combined with Kadri out for extended amounts of time, their interest in Kreider has increased tenfold.

I'm putting my chips in the middle that Sakic comes to Gorton and asks him besides a #1 pick what else do you need. You gotta figure JG is going to say we need a better extra piece than Jost...here's to hoping!

 

[Brooklyn Rangers Fan]

Rangers can definitely be the Avs one stop shop for all their needs... if they pay up.

Knowing Sakic’s history, however, wondering if this doesn’t make him go the other way, and take all his existing offers off the table and decide to wait until next year...

 

[NYRKING30]

Maybe instead the Avs just think with all these injuries at this time of the year they just pass on rentals at the deadline. This team is closer to the beginning rather a team at the end of the line.

 

[egelband]

Rangers can definitely be the Avs one stop shop for all their needs... if they pay up.

Knowing Sakic’s history, however, wondering if this doesn’t make him go the other way, and take all his existing offers off the table and decide to wait until next year...

That’s my first reaction too. Sakic has made “the accumulating phase” an art form. Or at least that’s his reputation. He must be a real hoot, this guy. Like a rollercoaster that just keeps going up slowly but no payoff.

 

[QJL]

The injuries are rough but this makes the Avs an obvious trading partner. They can look to bring on more than Kreider with the space they have. Give me Newhook!

 

[Maximus]

Rangers can definitely be the Avs one stop shop for all their needs... if they pay up.

Knowing Sakic’s history, however, wondering if this doesn’t make him go the other way, and take all his existing offers off the table and decide to wait until next year...

You could be right as Avs board is scared shit that Sakic might be tempted to add a Newhook to any deal and maybe plug two or three holes they have in one shot deal if they decided they still are going to go for it.

It's a tough call no doubt and one can argue it either way. If it were me, the West looks very winnable for the Avs if they got a Kreider and if they got Grubauer, Rantanen and Kadri back in time for the playoffs which they should.

If I'm Sakic, I don't wait till next year with the Blues showing some vulnerability and the offensively starved Stars being your likely other biggest obstacle.

Going to be quite the fascinating trade deadline and we are going to be right smack dab in the mix and might determine who wins the Cup this year as Kreider is going to be quite the nice piece to add for some team for sure!

 

[Barnaby]

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[bobbop]

Having been to all 50 states and every major US city, I’d nominate Detroit as a pretty nasty place. Seems like everyone I met there hated their existence.

 

[bobbop]

I came back home expecting this thread to be a knives drawn battle between the Kreider loyalists and those emboldened by the Toffoli trade return. Instead, I get five pages of where’s the worst city to live.

Let’s do that hockey thing.